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The class of 2012 is graduating from community colleges,
four-year colleges and universities all across America this
month. When they toss their caps in the air, I suggest you duck —
because this graduating class has a lot to protest.

While overall U.S. unemployment has dropped to about 8 percent —
in part because many Americans have simply given up looking for
work — recent college grads face a much more dismal reality: one
out of every two was either jobless or underemployed in 2011.

Unfortunately, throughout the campaign, what we’ve really
uncovered is just how bad chronic unemployment is for our young
people, including college grads. The fact is, young Americans
need all the help they can get, and they need it now.

10.
More college graduates are getting low-level jobs,
period. U.S. bachelor’s degree holders are more likely
to wait tables, tend bar or become food-service helpers than to
be employed as engineers, physicists, chemists or mathematicians
combined -- 100,000 versus 90,000.

15. According to new U.S. government projections, only
three of the 30 occupations with the largest projected number of
job openings in the next eight years will require a
bachelor's degree or higher.
Most job openings by 2012 will be in low-wage professions
like retail sales, fast food and truck driving.

28. Although 92 percent of young Americans aged 21-24 said they
felt entrepreneurship education was vital given the realities of
the new economy and job market, more than half (56
percent) were never offered entrepreneurship classes at
all.*

29. Most -- 62 percent -- students who
were offered entrepreneurship classes said they
didn't feel the classes prepared them enough to
start a business.*